VDMA: Cybersecurity issues must be resolved urgently

The increase of networking and digitization in industrial manufacturing leads to growing IT dependencies, with the number of cyber attacks rising. “In the recent past, there has been a significant increase in successful attacks on the production facilities of German machine and plant manufacturers,” says Steffen Zimmermann, Head of the VDMA Industrial Security Competence Center.

“Our research shows that more than a third of the members surveyed by the VDMA already report production stoppages. Half of the companies surveyed have already suffered capital losses.”